Charging device for tubular-magazine guns.



I A. P. LAUDENSAGK. v CHARGING DEVICE FOB. TUBULAR MAGAZINE GUNS.

' APPLIOATION.IILBD Jun: 1a, 1908.

Patentd Jan 19, 1909.

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thereon, to'be'a full,

d form a clearance slot 4 which gives tional freedom for the escape ofthe' ca'rtridgesfrom the v. tion as shown in Fig. 1-, and which also per-r ALBERT r. LAUDENSAGK, or NEW HAVEN, coNNEorIciUr'AssreNoa ro wmonns'rna REPEATING. ARMS (30., OF

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

CHARGING DEVICE FOR resume-M GAZINE GUNS.

Application filed June 18,1568. v- S erialNo. 439,193.

To, all whom it may concern: V

Be itv known that I, ALBERT F. LAUDEN: 3' SACK, a citizen of'the United States, residing ,at New Haven, in the county of Nev Haven 5 and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement Charging Devices for Tubular-Ma azine Guns; and l' do hereby declarethefol owing, when taken I j-in' connection with k the accompanying drawslandithe letters of reference marked tion of the same, and which said drawings constitute partof this specification, and rep resent, m-

.jvG'Figurel ,a' view partly in section and partly inside elevation of a charging device 7 constructed in accordance'with myinvention and shown as applied to a tubular cartridge {ma'gazmefor charging the same,

Fig.2 a view in side elevation ofthe'cau the magazine being shown in longitudinal" section.

"- tridge-retaining spring, the lower end of the tube being indicated by broken lines. 3 a broken plan view of the lower half of the device. Fig. 4 a broken view in longitudinal section'of the lower end of the' device showing the cartridgerretaining spring function- 'ing to'prevent the escape of the cartridges.

Fig; 5 a plan view of the entire device shown so V My invention relates to an improved chargon a reduced scale.

1 3 device for introducing cartridges into the magazines of rifles,the object being to pro- :1 'vide for this purpose a simple andconvenlent 3.

device enabling a person to introduce a predetermined number of cartridges, and de signed with particular reference to use in shooting galleries.

sists ina device having certain struction as will be hereinafter described and pointed'out in theclaims. i

In carrying out' my invention as herein shown, I em 0 addiopen lower end of the tube when the same 'is t1lted into aninclinedposimute the entrance into the passage of the tube of the inwardly bent lower end'5 of a cartridge-retaining spring 6 the upper end of clear, and exact descripused, aswill' be more Fig.

' With these ends in viewmy invention condetails of cone y a small tube 2 having its up per end 3c osedor partially closed and its ower'end open and cut away on oneside to which'is formed with lateral arms 7 bent to clasp the tube 2 so as to hold the spring in place thereon. The bent ortion 5 0f the spring is struck inward to orm a cartridgestop 8 which is engaged by the heads of the cartridges and: prevents them from escaping from the lower end of the tube 2 eXcept w hen the stop 8 is cleared from their paths" For the latter purpose I form at the lower end of the spring what I shall call, in default otabetter term, a segmenta operating-shoe? 9 standing at a right angle to the axis of the spring and curvedby preference to conform to the curvature of the tubular cartridge magazine 10 of the rifle with which the charger is to be fully described later 'on. To provide for the introduction-rintosthe magazine 10 of apredetermined number of cartridges 'e'n bloc'or without counting them individually, I form the exposed upper ,face of the'tube with one or more finger holes. 11' made large enou h to permit a sufficient entrance of the ger or thumb into the passage of the tube to engage with and control the -cartrid es therein. As shown the tube has'two 0 these finger-holes 11, and

two will robably be all that willbe required, though t eir number is immaterial. These finger-. holes are very carefully spaced in location with respect to the lower end of the tube and the length of the cartridges to be counted; Thus the first hole 11 lower end of the tube may be spaced so that five cartridges will be contained within that portion of the tube tridge-stop 8 and the middle of the hole. In

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from the j lying between the carthe same manner the upper of the two holes 'will'be spaced with reference to the lower end of the tube so that ten cartridges will be contained between it and the cartridgestop 8. In this. way the cartridges contained in the tube are counted en bloc, as it were, rather than individually. By tippinlglr the tube the cartridges contained 1n it wi gravitate to its lower end in e arrested by the cartridge-stop 8. Now if the finger is applied to the lower finger-hole 11 it Wlll act as a stopto prevent any of the cartridges above the hole from escaping from the tube when the same is applied to the magazine of the-gun and pressure placed upon the spring 6 so as to clear thestop 8 from the lower end of the tube. In the same way if thefinger or thumb is applied to the upper hich they will 7 2 si es? tubes and the length of the cartridges to be charged, of a cartridge-retaining spring ap plied to the lower end of the tube and formed at its lower end with a transversely arranged operating-shoe for engagement with the gun so as to release the cartridges in the tube.

3. In a charging device or tubular ma a- 4 zine guns, the combination with a tu e formed with one or more finger-holes spaced with reference to the open lower end of the tube and the length of the cartridges to be char ed, of a cartridge-retaining spring ap- 4 plie to the lower end of the tube and formed at its lower end with an inwardly projecting cartridge-stop and an operating-shoe.

4. In a charging device for tubular maga zine guns, the combination with a tube tormed with one or more finger-holes spaced with respect to the lower end of the tube and the length of the cartridges, and the tube being formedat its lower end with a cle'ar ance slot; of a cartridge-retaining sprin applied to the tube, having its lower end ent inwardly to enter the said slot and formed with an operating-shoe.

hole 11 the ten cartridges located between the hole and the projectlon 8 will be cut oil, 1solto speak, from the cartridges above the I 10 e.

The use of the device is illustrated in Fig. 1 in which the lower end of the tube2 isshown as inserted into a tubular magazine 10 having a feedin -opening 12 so that the operating-shoe 9 ri es upon the magazine at I a point just below the openin 12. By the exertion of a little pressure the spring 6 is caused to yield so as to clear the stop 8 from the lower end of the tube firom which a given, number of cartridges will. now run into the magazine according to the finger hole stoppedfi It will be apparent that if the device is gradually drawn away from a magazine which has been filled, the spring 6 will recover its cartridge-retainin position and prevent any cartridges firom eing spilled.

I claim a 1. In a charging device for tubular mamazine guns, the combination with a tu e formed with one or more finger-holes spaced with reference to the open lower end ofi the In testimony whereof, I have signed this tube and the length of' the cartridges to be specification in thepresen'ce of two subscrib 60 dragged, pf a cartridge fregaining sprbing apl ing Witnesses.

lie totae ower en o t "e sai tu e. u i P 2. Ina charging device for tubular magal ALBERT LAUDENSACK' zine guns, the combination with a tube Witnesses: formed with one or more finger-holes spaced DANIEL Vmnnn, with reference to the open lower end of the THOMAS C. JOHNSON. 

